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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Antique Framed Menu Chalkboard

This is a chalk menu board I created by preserving/stabilizing a lovely tattered antique frame.

Above: Details of the top center of the frame.

Some of the decorative pieces of the frame had been lost. I sealed the remaining ornamentation and secured the frame connections and joints.

Mirrors originally occupied the three openings in the frame. This tripartate style mirror was a common fixture in homes for centuries and was designed for hanging over the fireplace mantel.

Above: Details along the side of the frame.

I made chalkboard panels cut to fit the openings where the mirrors once were (long gone by the time I discovered this piece) and installed them into the three openings of the frame. I attached new wall-hanging hardware, thus giving this discarded old frame a second life as a unique menu board.

The menu board is now available at Home Again Consignment at 1019 E. 2100 S. in Sugarhouse.

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Today's Ideabooks

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Thursday's child has a long, long way to roam...

"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts." Herman Melville, In Mazatlan, March 28 - April 16, 1844, Sociedad Historica Mazatleca, Mexico